“It's the stench, Martha.”
----Quotations of Chairman Joe
The stench returns. The election returns on our Guy Fawkes Day crowns our own insurrection.
One must ask “has Donald tRUMP ever achieved anything honestly? The answer is at once painful and obvious. Everything the scum has achieved has been through dubious and outright dishonest means. He even cheats at golf for Christ's sake.
This against a backdrop of decades of ReSCUMlican efforts to fuck with our elections. Let's review the track record: Nixon's sabotage of the Paris Peace Conference in '68, Nixon's Watergate break-in in '72, Reagan's negotiations with Iran to hold the hostages in '80, Bush's torpedo of Gary Hart's campaign in '88, Bush the Lesser's “Brook's Brothers” riot in Tallahassee and the Supreme Court's interference in the Florida recount in 2000, Bush's suspicious tabulations in Ohio in 2004, tRUMP's collusion with the Rooskies in 2016, as well as 2024, the organized insurrection on January 6 of 2021 and the complete fabrication of the stolen election fraud, for the last sixty years they have been fucking with our elections.
And that's at 30,000 feet. On the ground they have been purging voter rolls, limiting the number of polling places in Democratic precincts, making it harder to register as in Wisconsin and, in some Democratic jurisdictions sending out notices that if you have outstanding child support or other violations you will be arrested if you show up at the polls. They have even sent out leaflets telling Democrats that Republicans vote on Tuesday, and Democrats on Wednesday, the day after elections.
They know they are the minority. That's what happens when you serve only the billionaires, the Oligarchy. So they fuck with our elections; when they can't divide us on cultural issues, they fuck with the machinery of our elections. All this while the scream from the mountaintop that is the Democrats that are rigging the elections.
In this context, the January 6th insurrection is telling. Here we have it in full view. ; The nerve of these fucking fascists.
I say all this to point out that it is and has long been about nothing other than fucking with our elections; about unlimited political expediency; about gaining and holding power by whatever means necessary, even at the cost of destroying the republic.
I have been laboring in the vineyards of our political life for nearly seven decades now. I have worked in more campaigns (for both parties incidentally) than I care to remember. I recognize the stench of !death when I smell it.
As election day approached Pamela Harris was filling arena's, enthusiasm was sky high. On the ground, people were showing up at local Democratic Party headquarters and asking for yard signs!
Asking for yard signs!
Now anyone who has ever worked in an elections knows that distributing yard signs is basic and universally difficult work. One must go door to door, or work the phones, in order to get permission from the property owner or renter to place the sign on their premises. Often the principal will agree out of civic duty which is why the number of signs is, more often than not, a misleading indicator of real political support. But it is deemed necessary in order to give the campaign visibility and, therefore it is reasoned, legitimacy. But never, and I do mean never, do citizens show up in large numbers at party or campaign headquarters looking for yard signs.
Not so this year. I spent a few hours at party headquarters and witnessed several dozen of my neighbors show up and not only ask for Harris signs but PAID ten dollars for each and every sign. This is unheard of.
Meanwhile, the Orange Turd couldn't fill a respectable high school gymnasium as several videos of his campaign rallies demonstrated. His crowds were small and thin, with many leaving while he continued droning on in the background about Hannibal Lecter and batteries and sharks. His campaign reeked of decomposition like a rotting turd in the hot afternoon sun.
This election doesn't pass the smell test. It reeks of foul play and, as reports that there were 200 bomb in Democratic precincts in the swing states, I'm beginning to smell a rat.
